How to Find Popular Free Apps on Your iPhone 5
When you first get an iPhone, or when you decide that you want to start downloading apps, it can be difficult to figure out which …
Mobile Devices
How-to guides and tutorials for devices like the
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Google Pixel
- and more
You can also visit our Device Guides Page to see a list of devices for which we have written articles.
Some of the more popular articles in this category include:
Why Are Multiple iPhones Ringing When One Receives a Phone Call?
Have you experienced a situation where you receive a phone call on your iPhone and other iPhones in your home start ringing? This is occurring …
Disable Subtitles for Amazon Prime iPhone App in iOS 8
Are the subtitles enabled in the Prime Video app on your iPhone but you don’t want them to be? While subtitles can be helpful in …
How to Disable Dictation on the iPhone 5
You may have noticed the microphone button to the left of the space bar on your keyboard and wondered what it does. This button allows …
Opening Links in the Background on the iPhone 5
There are a couple of different ways to open links in the Safari browser on your iPhone. The first and most common method is to …
How to Forward Text Messages on iPhone 5
Being able to see all of your important information across multiple devices has become critical in today’s digital world. If you need to keep up …
How to Define a Word in Safari on the iPhone
Almost every day we learn something new. One of the most common things that we learn are new words, but occasionally we will find them …
How to Bold Text in iPhone Emails
The Mail application on the iPhone is surprisingly robust, and there are so many options for creating new mail that you may find it to …
How to Delete a Single Text in iOS 8
Is there a text message on your phone that you need to delete? While you may know about how to delete an entire text message …
How to Adjust the Exposure on the iPhone 5 Camera
The iPhone camera has been one of the most widely used camera in existence for several years, due largely to the fact that it was …
How to Slow Down Speech on the iPhone
We’ve previously written about how to have your iPhone speak a selection, but if you have used this option, then you might find that your …
How to Use Parentheses on the iPhone Calculator
The calculator on your iPhone can be a handy tool to have available when you need to do some simple math, but you may find …
How to See the Definition of a Word on Your iPhone
When you are reading the information in a text message or on a website, you may occasionally encounter a word that is foreign to you. …
How to Get OneDrive on an iPhone 5
We have previously written about how to automatically upload pictures from your iPhone to Dropbox, but you might be wondering if something similar is possible …
How to Enable the Genius Option on Your iPhone 5
Apple’s Genius feature is a helpful way to create playlists based on one song. Rather than forcing you to create an entire playlist song-by-song, using …
How to Delete Messages from Your iPad After 30 Days
On devices with a limited amount of space, it can become a delicate balance to keep what you need, but still have the ability to …
How to Add an App to Your iPhone 5 Wish List
You might often hear about an app or a game on your iPhone that sound ds interesting. But you have a limited amount of space …
How to Stop Showing Email Previews on the iPhone Lock Screen
There are numerous notification settings that can be modified on your iPhone 5, and they are available for almost every app. Some apps, such as …
How to Show More Emails in Your iPhone 5 Inbox
Your iPhone’s Mail app is a great way to view your email messages. But if it seems like you are scrolling a lot, then you …
How to View a Formula in a Word 2013 Table
Microsoft Word 2013 tables have some of the same features that you will find in an Excel 2013 spreadsheet, but Word is missing one of …
How to Add an Album to Your Wish List on the iPhone 5
There are a lot of under-utilized features on the iPhone, many of which can make your life a bit easier. One of these features is …
How to See Your iTunes Radio History on an iPhone
Have you ever heard a song you enjoyed but weren’t sure who sang it or what it was called? Usually, you can just open the …
How to Send a Picture Through Email on an iPhone 5
The iPhone 5 camera is very easy to use, and the quality of the pictures that you take with it is surprisingly high. Because of …
How to Reduce the Size of an iPhone iCloud Backup
Every iCloud account comes with 5 GB of free storage, which you can use to save files to the cloud. One common use of this …
Why Can’t I Search for Contacts on My iPhone 5?
After even a small amount of time with your iPhone, you can quickly accumulate a lot of information. Whether this is in the form of …
Why Is My iPad Keyboard at the Center of the Screen?
You can customize many aspects of your iPad if you need to change something about the user experience. Some of these changes are fairly obvious …
How to Turn Off Auto-Shazam on the iPhone 5
have you ever Shazam’d a song to find out what it was, only to close the app and see a red bar at the top …
How to Use Threads to Organize Emails on the iPhone
Many email conversations can extend to multiple messages and include different combinations of people, so it can become difficult to keep track of what information …
How to Add a Street Address for a Contact on the iPhone 5
Different people need different things out of their contact information, so the level of detail that you include for every new contact that you create …
How to Show the Favorites Bar in Safari on the iPad 2
You can show the Safari favorites bar on an iPad by going to Settings > Safari > and tapping the button to the right of …
How to Reduce Text Size on the iPad 2
You can reduce the text size on the iPad 2 by going to Settings > Display & Brightness > Text Size > then choosing an …
How to Remove Lines from the Camera on the iPhone 5
The iPhone 5 camera has a surprising number of features and settings that can help you improve the quality of your pictures. One of these …
View List of Recent App Updates on iPhone 5
The apps on your iPhone bring a lot of extra features to your device, and are one of the best parts about having an iPhone. …
How to View Your History in the iPhone Chrome Browser
Almost every modern Web browser offers a quick and easy way to access your browsing history. This makes it easy to locate pages that you …
How to Block a Recent Call on the iPhone 5
As more and more people move toward using their cell phones as their primary phone number, some of the problems that arose with landline phones …
Disable the Erase Data Option After 10 Failed Attempts
The iPhone passcode is an important security precaution to have in place in the event that your device is ever lost or stolen. It may …
How to Get Rid of Auto-Correct Voice on iPad 2
Does your iPad speak auto-corrections whenever it replaces a word or capitalizes something that you are typing? This is a feature that many people dislike, …
What is an App Switcher on the iPhone 5?
If you have been reading up on some of the new changes in iOS 8, such as one of the new ways to find your …
How to Make a Web Page Easier to Read on iPhone
There are a lot of distractions on modern Web pages that can make it difficult to absorb the information that you are trying to read. …
Why Are the Usage Statistics on My iPhone 5 Incorrect?
If your iPhone 5 cellular plan has a fixed amount of data or minutes each month, then you will likely pay additional money if you …
How to Turn Off Genius on the iPhone 5
The Genius feature has been something that has been around for a few years and is used to create playlists that Apple thinks you will …
Deleting Empty Photo Albums on the iPhone 5
Albums in the iPhone Photos app are a helpful way to organize your pictures into different categories. It can be difficult to scroll through a …
Automatically Delete iPhone Messages After 30 Days
You can have your iPhone automatically delete text messages after 30 days by going to Settings > Messages > Keep Messages > then select 30 …
How to Turn on Grayscale on the iPhone 5
Have you seen or heard about the grayscale option in iOS 8, and wanted to check it out on your own iPhone 5? It is …
How to Stop CC’ing Yourself on Emails Sent from Your iPhone 5
If you use POP email on your computer or on your iPhone, then you are likely aware of issues that can arise by not syncing …
How to Turn Off Tips Notifications on the iPhone 5
One notable addition to your iPhone 5 after installing the iOS 8 update is the Tips app. This is meant to teach you about new …
How to Remove Contacts from the App Switcher on the iPhone 5
Did you double-tap your Home button after installing iOS 8, only to find a list of your contacts at the top of the screen? iOS …
How to Update to iOS 8 on an iPad 2
Compatible Apple devices can be updated to iOS 8, and the iPad 2 is one of the devices that can receive the update. If you …
How Much Space Do I Need to Install the iOS 8 Update on My iPhone 5?
If you have an iPhone 4S or newer, an iPad 2 or newer, or an iPod Touch 5th generation or newer, then you are probably …
How to Send All Text Messages as SMS on the iPhone 5
Are you having problems with iMessages going to multiple devices? Or do you share an Apple ID with someone and you keep getting each other’s …